Inside the BRD: Lafayette's Keyana Brown leads our All-Bay Rivers District girls basketball team as Player of the Year

Listed below is our 2013-14 All-Bay Rivers District girls basketball team, with our Player of the Year and a couple of other superlatives. While the aim was to limit the team to five players, we feel this group represents Grafton's excellence in four-peating as district champion, as well as the push the next three teams gave the Clippers this season.

Player of the Year Keyana Brown (Lafayette). After four spectacular seasons at Williamsburg Christian Academy, the 5-11 Old Dominion recruit lived up to the hype with averages of 23.3 points, 9.2 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 4.7 steals in the Bay Rivers.

Olivia Wilson (Grafton). Last year’s Player of the Year had another great season, averaging 18.4 points and 6.5 rebounds to increase her career totals to 1,605 points and 850 rebounds.

Hannah Olson Grafton). Other than Brown, Olson – who averaged 15.0 points, 6.2 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 5.3 steals – has as good an all-around game as anyone in the district.

Emily Beyer (Grafton). Nervous under pressure early in her career, Beyer (13.3 points, 4.5 assists and 3.0 steals per game) has been increasingly clutch in big games, as she did in scoring 18 in the 61-56 district title clinching win at Poquoson.

Jackie Jordan (Smithfield). Well more than half of her 10.9 rebounds came on the offensive glass, which is why she averaged 11.9 points for a team that handed Grafton its only district loss in two seasons.

Sydney Turner (Poquoson). The scoring average (12.8 ppg) isn’t gaudy because the Islanders spread the wealth among numerous seniors, but she runs the offense effectively and isn’t afraid to take over a game at winning time.

Rookie of the Year Shannen Atkinson (Smithfield). With averages of about nine points and 10 rebounds, Atkinson, a 6-2 sophomore who played on the JV last year, gave the Packers a huge boost in the middle.

Coach of the Year Tommy Bayse (Grafton). Yeah, Grafton was always supposed four-peat as district champs. But between losing defensive star Christa Hall for the whole season and starter Renee Roe for much of it, all while adjusting his defense to the new hand-check rules amid more competition, Bayse had his work cut out for him.